Mesters Vig

We have been waiting in Mesters Vig for the last two nights for the weather to clear in Station Nord. Mesters Vig is a military base on the eastern coast of Greenland with only seven permanent residents and about just as many dogs! Yesterday I discovered a SKUA nest while hiking to the ice cap. This morning at 5:30 we set a net trap over the nest and waited for about an hour for the mother bird to return to her eggs. Adrian successfully placed a transmitter on the SKUA and named it Lucy in my honor.The only other animal sightings have been baby white rabbits! We finally left Mesters Vig in the evening on a four hour flight to Station Nord. On arrival we discovered that the Ivory Gull colony that GREA studied four years ago is still here. They are going to attempt to place a transmitter on one of the birds tomorrow.